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Gordian knot : apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order
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Gordian knot : apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order

Author: Ryan M Irwin
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series: Oxford studies in international history.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian Knot examines South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, using the global apartheid debate  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ryan M Irwin
ISBN: 9780199855612 0199855617
OCLC Number: 774867694
Description: xi, 244 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Opening the curtain --
Part one. Winds of change --
Architects and earthquakes --
Defining the debate --
Africa for the Africans --
Part two. Halls of justice --
The status quo --
Looking outward --
Conclusion: toward a new order.
Series Title: Oxford studies in international history.
Responsibility: Ryan M. Irwin.

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Gordian Knot explores how African decolonization remade the international order of the mid-twentieth century. In looking closely at the apartheid debate, the book shows the way South Africa's  Read more...
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